THERE IS STILL A FEW HOURS LEFT FOR A SHADOW MIKI FIGHT IM NOT LATE AT ALL

[nomammano.livejournal.com]

Who: Miki and Her Shadow, after the fight, whomever wants to speak to either of them!
What: Acting like adults
When: Dark Hour
Where: The Streets of Prospero



[The final night in november and Miki is out prowling for shadows. After a few weeks of not having her own alien body snatching double, and also getting beat up by Kaiji's shadow a few days ago, Miki and Ares have been somewhat less gentle when taking out shadows over the past few nights.

It is not long after, though, that she is approached by a shadow that does look oddly familiar, though she is dressed a bit more maturely and her hair is cut shorter and is not tied back. Shadow Miki's golden eyes scowl at Miki when she finally notices her presence.]

Miki turns to the shadows with a somewhat more excited smile than she really should in this situation,

"So, my evil doppelganger has finally appeared, I've been waiting to meet you."

The shadow gives Miki a somewhat exasperated look and sighs, heavily.

"Will you just stop this? You know exactly what's going on. It's time to stop pretending this is some sort of movie."

Shadow Miki's tone is more polite and calm then Miki normal fast paced chatter.

"Don't try and fool me, evil-"

"OH just STOP it!" the shadow snaps back at Miki, "Maybe instead of pretending this is a movie for once, you can stop and actually try to understand a situation."

"What are you tal-"

"Or maybe you can just try and beat me up, since you never really could solve any problem without your fist anyway. Of course, I'm not a more successful person who you need to try and push around to make up for your own failings in life."

"There's nothing wrong with my life right now! I have plenty of fri-"

"HAH! Friends. They are only around because they are scared you'll beat them up if they do decide to actually tell you that they think that you're an immature waste of a person."

"HEY! That's not tr-"

"Oh, maybe I could hunt down one of the other loser guys here and actually be nice to them. You know, it's pretty pathetic that at 20 you've only been on one date, with that loser of a neighbor. Of course, you'll just attack me for that too, since you can't stand to see people more successful than you be happy."

"What are you-"

"Oh don't act that way with me, girl, you only hate Kaiji so much because he's going to end up happy while you're going to end up alone, just like your mother."


"That's not true at all! He's going to get someone hurt! And don't call me g-"

"Girl? Why not? You act like you're 12 rather than the adult you are. You probably don't even know how to act responsible. Heck, you were the one that abandoned Saori and left her along with Kaiji in order to go off and fulfill your girlish fantasies of being a hero."

At this point, Miki looks rather agitated. Her face is tightened into an angry scowl, her first clenched to the point where she is about to draw blood.

"I SAID STOP CALLING ME A GIRL!"

The Shadow laughs and moves into her own fighting stance. It is a lot more closed and graceful than Miki's regular stance.

"Ahahaha, Oh Miki, I just knew that this would come. Now I'll show you how to fight like a real adult."

Immediatelythe shadow calls forth Ares and the two of them charge Miki. Quickly, Miki call her persona and the two battle for a few minutes, but it soon becomes abundantly clear that the shadow has the upper hand in this fight. While Miki's movement are quick and haphazard, tinged with the rage biuld up from the conversation and days of things not going her way, the Shadow's movements are calm, as her and the persona only strike occasionally, when Miki lets her guard down enough for a brutal strike from her shadowed version. Eventually the Shadow lands a blow that knocks Miki into the air and into a nearby pile of trash. The Shadow spits at the now unconscious Miki before she walks off, laughing to herself.

"A fitting place for you to end girl. This is all you'll ever amount to."

[For the rest of the night Miki will be out cold in a pile of trash in an alley, unless you want to come and wake her. If you want to run into Miki's shadow, who is just wandering around for the rest of the Dark Hour, just say so and I'll have corruptedramen show up for a little chat.]

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[needsteaplz.livejournal.com]

[Saori decided to venture out alone this time when she comes across the unconscious Miki. Fearing the worst, she runs over to her and gently shakes her.]

Miki? Miki? Wake up.

[nomammano.livejournal.com]

Mrrph, I dont....

[nomammano.livejournal.com]

[Suddenlt Miki snaps to attention, and looks pretty mad.]

GET BACK HERE YOU

[nomammano.livejournal.com]

[Noticing Saori, Miki calms down, looking a bit embarrassed.]

Oh, hi Saori.

[needsteaplz.livejournal.com]

You scared me half to death, you crazy fool!

[Don't mind her while she smothers you with a hug, Miki. This whole Shadow event has been terrifying. But eventually she lets go.]

Were you just talking about your shadow?

[nomammano.livejournal.com]

Sorry, It seems that my alien doppleganger is a lot better at fighting than I am, which is good, at least.

[needsteaplz.livejournal.com]

Alien dopple...Miki, that's actually a Shadow version of you. It's part of yourself hidden deep within. It probably told you a lot of stuff you didn't want to hear but there is a grain of truth to what it said. You mustn't deny its existence completely.

[nomammano.livejournal.com]

[Miki's normal cheerfulness seems to drain out of her for a moment.]

What it said was wrong though.

[needsteaplz.livejournal.com]

Miki, I just said you mustn't deny what it says. As much as you don't want to believe it's true, it is to some extent.

[She steps back.]

How do I explain this? I could only take care of my shadow by realizing what it said there was some truth but it's not the whole truth. Give me example. What did the Shadow say to you?

[nomammano.livejournal.com]

[Miki laughs neviously before answering Saori. She noticeably isn't looking Saori in the eyes.]

It's probably not that important! It was just trying to get on my nerves. I had to deal with people like that all the time at home.

[needsteaplz.livejournal.com]

[Saori can't help but remember her deceased little brother. He always gave her the same look when he realized he was in trouble and tried to get out of it with a lie. Never worked for some reason though.]

Miki, please realize I'm trying to help you. If you can't be honest with me, how do you expect to be honest with yourself?

[nomammano.livejournal.com]

[Well now Miki just feels bad. She lets her head hang and replies silently.]

It called me immature

[athngabla.livejournal.com]

You see some weird things during the Dark Hour. Mostly it's grim imagery, blood, and monsters with an appearance that may or may not cause Sigmund Freud to begin dancing with glee inside of his coffin -- coffins were another thing you'd see during the Dark Hour, coincidentally.

What you normally wouldn't see would be a human leg sticking out of a pile of trash.

This sight catching his curiosity, Lancer would crouch down and investigate the pile o' junk, unearthing the KO'd girl and subsequently trying to get her out of that whole "unconscious" state of being.

"Oi. Wake up, kid."

[nomammano.livejournal.com]

Burhvjzzzd [Miki mutters from under the pile of trash, still a little bit out of it, slowly she comes too, muttering and groaning a bit as she struggles to get up.]

[athngabla.livejournal.com]

Lancer wasn't quite a gentleman per se, but he did err in favor of doing things like helping people out far more often than he did the opposite.

So yeah, have a steady arm helping you sit up and a curious face on the other end of it.

"Who the hell hit you? Doubt there's any shadow unreasonable enough, or smart enough, to dump someone in a mess of trash like that."

[nomammano.livejournal.com]

[Miki grabs Lancer's arm and hauls herself up.]

Well If were anyone other than myself I'd be embarrassed to say that I did lose.

[athngabla.livejournal.com]

He chuckled. "Bah. Nothing wrong with losing once in a while, long as you don't make a habit of it." Because gods knew he'd been having a pretty awful run of luck since that stupid grail war

"What was it, anyway? I'm guessing you've got one of those crazed duplicates running around too."

The implicit words unsaid all related to how normal shadows weren't big fans of leaving Persona-users breathing.

[nomammano.livejournal.com]

"I guess I do too. That's why..."

[Miki seems to drift off for a moment, a vaguely sad look on her face, before she quickly wipes it away with a deep breath.]

"That's why I'm not upset about losing to it."

[athngabla.livejournal.com]

He nods in approval, grinning wolfishly. "Not like you won't be able to get a rematch, either. Those things seem to make a habit of bothering the people they share a face with."

It would appear that Miki's not the only one on the streets who seems to be looking for a good scrap, tonight.

[nomammano.livejournal.com]

Well sh'es gonna be in trouble next time. She won't be able to get me bothered before attacking me.

Have you met yours yet, uh, whoever you are?

[athngabla.livejournal.com]

"Name's Lancer. One of 'em, anyway."

In all honesty, dropping any and all pretense of following the Grail War naming system was seeming more and more appealing. Certainly would make things less confusing and annoying.

"As for my body-double, flighty little fake hasn't shown his head yet. Even after I go through the trouble of roaming around looking for him."

[nomammano.livejournal.com]

Well that's the problem with fakes, they just don't have the guts to face you directly. He's probably planning an ambush or something.

[athngabla.livejournal.com]

"Nah. If they act even remotely like us, I know what mine'll do. Ambushing ain't my style in the least."

He shrugged nonchalantly. The confrontation would happen when it'd happen. No sense thinking "what if" or "when it'll happen, I'll..." about it. Waste of time.

"Gonna be looking for a rematch with yours already?"

[nomammano.livejournal.com]

"Definitely. Next time it won't have the time to say anything. You should ambush yours though, since it wouldn't think that you would ambush it, so it's guard would foolishly be down."

[athngabla.livejournal.com]

"No way, no how. Ambush ain't how I do things."

He traced four figures in the air idly; Algiz, Nauthiz, Ansuz, and Ignuz. Combined the runes placed a geas on the opponent, forcing them into a one-on-one death-match. Here, it was useless to him, but his Shadow? Probably not.

"Face-to-face confrontation. Win or lose. Not much glory in any other kinda combat." He added, for Miki's benefit.